Oscars 2020: 10 Ups & 6 Downs

1. Renée Zellweger Wins Best Actress

Though it was hardly a surprise, Renée Zellweger winning the Best Actress Oscar for her performance as Judy Garland in Judy was pretty much the single downer win of the night, if only because it was such a painfully unimaginative choice.

Was Zellweger's performance bad? Absolutely not, but Oscar-worthy? Not a chance.

In the very least, there are strong arguments to be made that Scarlett Johansson (Marriage Story) and Saoirse Ronan (Little Women) were infinitely more deserving, and given that Zellweger already has an Oscar to her name, it's not like this was even a conciliatory "career Oscar."

Above all else, it's a reminder of just how much Hollywood loves movies about itself, and as with Rami Malek's dubious Oscar win for playing Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody last year, how much the Academy loves to reward biopic "impersonation" performances.

But this year's Oscars was for the most part a deeply satisfying one, and so here's everything Academy voters got right...